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''You're not there to run the organisation. You are there to make sure that it is run properly.''
Gerry Brown is passionate about the benefits which Independent Directors can bring to a board - not just a corporate board, but the board of an NHS Trust, a university, a sports organisation or a charity. He's particularly keen that there's increased diversity on these board boards and feels that this would help to avoid some of the scandals (Oxfam, Kids Company - we're thinking about you) which have occurred in recent years. For this to happen, boards need to have a wider field of people to choose from when they're looking for an ID.
There's a sameness about many boards: when there's been a problem Brown often looks at the details of the board concerned and finds that they can be summed up quite succinctly. They're ''male, pale and stale''. He puts this lack of diversity down to the fact that boards are fishing from the same pool, although at least one of his anecdotes does illustrate that prejudice has not ''entirely'' gone away. But - the world has changed in ways that we could never have imagined at the end of 2019 and organisations are facing more challenges than ever before.
